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Thursday, March 26, 2015

D.C. News Outlets Blast Huizenga and Schock For House Rules Violation

Rep. Bill Huizenga

By Brandon Hall(Email him at WestMiPolitics@Gmail.com)

Today, multiple Washington D.C. news outlets blasted Rep. Bill Huizenga for inappropriate behavior after Rep. Aaron Schock's farewell speech, with one even wondering if the House Ethics Committee would look at the matter.

Huizenga, a third term Republican from Zeeland, took a picture of Schock with some legislator friends on the House floor, which is against House rules. Rep. Mike Bishop, a freshman, violated the rule earlier this year and immediately apologized. Huizenga, in his fifth year as a Representative, undoubtedly knew about the rule and snapped the pic anyway. Roll Call writes:

"In another violation of House rules, Schock also took a pic with his congressional buds Kristi Noem, R-S.D., and Jason Smith, R-Mo., — or, rather, Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., took it for him.But what did it matter? Was anyone going to raise the issue with the
Ethics Committee? Was the House sergeant-at-arms anywhere in sight?"

It's unclear if Huizenga was the subject of a complaint for an ethics violation.

Huizenga has also come under fire for campaign finance report issues over ten years old, and a secret trip to Japan paid for by a group with ties to a disgusting forced sterilization scandal in Peru._____________________________________________________________________

Brandon Hall is a lifelong political nerd from Grand Haven, and is the Managing Editor of West Michigan Politics.